My favorite newspaper excerpt today comes from an article about an underhanded trick in the New Jersey Senate race between Bob Menendez, the Democrat, and Tom Kean, Jr., the Republican.

Kean’s Republican campaign spokesperson has apparently posed as a disgruntled Democrat and posted anti-Menendez comments on a Democratic blog. This was discovered after the computer used to make the comments was traced to Kean headquarters.

My favorite part of the article:

The Kean campaign’s technical adviser said that the Internet protocol, or I.P., address that linked the posts to the Kean headquarters was an old one, “from over a month ago.” But an e-mail message Ms. Hazelbaker sent to a reporter on Wednesday shares the same I.P. address.

D’oh. People are stupid.